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Originally Posted by 3catcircus
Depends - which torpedoes are you carrying? You could possibly, as Mad Mardigan indicated, fire off from both ends and have them circle 90 degrees off bow/stern while targets are abeam. But, you run the risk of circling back on you.
Intent would be to hit the aft-most of the two first if you can't hit both targets at the same time.
Ideally, they are in trail and you can fan off shots from both ends with the ability to have maximum dispersion of the shots.
If you are unable to fire at such an extreme angle due to the torpedo type and don't have 6 up front, you're better off firing three at the BB and one at the carrier. Yamato had thicker armor (2x as thick in most locations) than Shokaku. Unless you have torpedos without depth keeping and magnetic issues, your best bet is manually aiming for more vulnerable locations on the hull.
The real Yamato took 11 torpedoes and 6 bombs and only sunk due to a massive magazine explosion caused by uncontrollable fires. Had the crew been able to fight the fires and flooding, she likely would have been able to limp home.
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I decided on the carrier as more important target but on next observation the flank escort had rushed back into position, so would likely be detected before could make a proper shot. switched to Yamato. I fired and scored hits, which slowed the Yamato for some time, caused a slight starboard list forward. Mark 18;s lack of a wake helped here but Yamato sped back up and sailed away. Despite chasing all day, had to dive often to avoid the planes from the carrier. Eventually lost contact and could not regain.
This is my custom version of TMO (releasing in near future as a TMO update) and the Yamato is a tough bird to sink in the sim now. As you mentioned(I read it was 18 torpedoes 15 bomb hits, many near misses) , was way too easy in normal game. Damaged her twice in different careers once in August 42(5 Mark 14 hits from bow tubes, six prematurely detonated, stern tubes were two duds, one miss due to gyro issue, third premature. Went deep to avoid depth charges, when came back she was listing to port but making 9 knots and limping into Truk western entrance) and one in late 43 but never sunk her (outside of testing) since the early days of TMO with RSRD.